英语专业四级听力周计划：短文理解真题4
Nobody wants to be old, unknown and poor.
For Hollywood kids, life can be difficult because they grow up in such an unreal atmosphere.
Their parents are ambitious and the children are part of their parents' ambitions.
Parents pay for wasteful grand parties, expensive cars and designer clothes.
When every dream can come true, kids don't learn the value of anything because they have everything.
A 13-year-old boy, Trent Maguire, has a driver, credit cards and unlimited cash to do what he wants when he wants to.
"One day, I'll earn more than my dad!" he boasts.
Parents buy care and attention for their children because they have no time to give it themselves.
Amanda's mother employs a personal trainer, a bodyguard, a singing coach and a councilor to look after all her 15-year-old daughter's needs.
Often, there is no parent at home most days, so children decide whether to make their own meals or go out to reataurants, when to watch television or do homework.
They organise their own social lives.
They play no childhood games.
They became alduts before they're ready.
Hollywood has always been the city of dreams.
The kis there live unreal lives where money, beauty and pleasure are the only gods.
Will children around the world soon start to think the same?
Or do they already?
